Display Electronic News Issue #4 — February 2003

Web Site Split Commencing early in March, Digital View will split the current website into two in order to better support the separate needs of our Display Electronics customers and our Media Systems customers. A new gateway page will provide an immediate choice between the divisions Panel Centric Website At the same time as the split occurs the Display Electronics (DE) section will go through a upgrade to emphasize a panel centric approach and simplified support. The site is reorganized to focus on providing users rapid access to product information and new tools to minimize the need to call for information. A new "solutions builder" function will aid users to quickly determine the solution for a specific panel, including the ability to print out the list of parts required or to email a quote request directly to the distributor of choice. New Panels Support LG LP121S4-B2Q1 ID TECH IASX12 NEC NL10276BC30-10 Toshiba LTM12C505S www.digitalview.com

Product Failures At Digital View we take product reliability seriously and our goal is to provide our customers with the most reliable products in the industry. Product reliability is not an art but a carefully planned and measured science that Digital View has refined over a number of years. Through our careful engineering and quality practices and a policy of continuous improvement, all of our controllers now offer reliability standards well in excess of the industry norms. MTBF (Mean Time Between Failures) statistics are important to understand in order to determine just how reliable a product will be in operation. For example, the table shows what the predictable failure rates will be on a product operating for 10 hours per day, 365 days per year.  MTBF Hours   Failure Free   Failures  5,000 48.7% 51.3% 10,000 69.8% 30.2% 20,000 83.5% 16.5% 40,000 91.4% 8.6% 100,000 96.5% 3.5% The good news is that every one of Digital View's controllers have an MTBF well in excess of 100,000 hours. If you want to know by how much, then contact your local Digital View office for the actual MTBF numbers or even copies of the full MTBF analysis to qualified customers. Reliability calculations are performed according to industry standard Bellcore TR332. Digital View products are manufactured to IPC-A-610 Class 2 standards. 100% inspection is performed during manufacturing and QA sampling inspection conforms to Mil-Std-105E, Normal Inspection Level II. Digital View has our own Quality Assurance Manager dedicated to constantly improving product quality and reliability. Digital View manufacturing facility is certified as ISO 9001:1994 and is currently in the process of upgrading to ISO 9001: 2000 certification. If you have quality issues, recommendations or need for enhanced product to meet specific reliability or environmental goals, contact your local Digital View Office. For previous editions see: www.digitalview.com/newsletter/archive/

Panel Model	Description	ACG-1024	AVP-1280	SVP-1280	SV-1600
LTM04C380K	4" VGA		N/A	N/A	N/A
LTM04C380S	4" VGA		N/A	N/A	N/A
LTM06C310	6.3"
LTM08C343S	8.4" SVGA
LTM08C351	8.4" SVGA
LTM10C209A	10.4" SVGA
LTM10C210	10.4" VGA
LTM10C306L	10.4" XGA
LTM10C273	10.4" SVGA
LTM10C313K	10.4" XGA
LTM10C348S	10.4" XGA
LTM10C321K	10.4" XGA
LTM10C353S	10.4" SXGA	N/A
LTM12C275A	12.1" SVGA
LTM12C285	12.1" SVGA
LTM12C318	12.1" XGA
LTM12C505S	12.1" XGA

—Solution published on the web site

N/A - Incompatible resolution

A new code version is in final SQA test for the SVP-1280 that incorporates the programmable gamma curve feature found in the SV-1600. Once released, this version of code will be incorporated into production deliveries over the next few weeks. If you need to upgrade an existing controller to gain this functionality, contact your local DV office.

Vehicle Based Display Systems

As any integrator knows, building electronic products to run in vehicles is a difficult and complex task. The primary difficulty with vehicle based systems being the need to accommodate the wide fluctuations in voltage that may occur on the vehicle power circuits. The causes of these fluctuations can be anything from engaging the starter motor on an automobile, a train switching to a different track or an aircraft switching from auxiliary generators to main power. Whatever the cause, the fluctuations can play havoc with electronics.

The advanced family of products from Digital View (AVP-1280, SVP-1280, SV-1600) all feature an extremely robust power supply that was designed specifically to accommodate events of this type. While nominally a 12 volt input, the power supplies on these controllers can tolerate input voltages as low as 8 volts and as high 16 volts. Engineered specifically to provide this wide operating range, DV controllers are successfully installed in the harshest of environments including trains, fire engines, police cars, police motorcycles, military aircraft, military vehicles, robotic vehicles, aircraft entertainment systems and many, many more.

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